Movie
Sarafina!
Overview
A Soweto schoolgirl named Sarafina is galvanized to protest apartheid after her teacher is arrested for her activism, leading her to join the student resistance movement.
Details
- Release date
- 1992-09-18
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Genres
- Music, Drama, Family
- Status
- Released
- Production
- BBC, Vanguard Films, Distant Horizon, Ideal, Les Films Ariane, Videovision Entertainment, Hollywood Pictures, Miramax
- Country
- South Africa, United Kingdom, United States of America, France
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Leleti Khumalo as Sarafina
- Whoopi Goldberg as Mary Masembuko
- John Kani as School Principal
- Miriam Makeba as Angelina
- Mary Twala as Sarafina's Grandmother
- Dumisani Dlamini as Crocodile
- Mbongeni Ngema as Sabela
- Tertius Meintjes as Lieutenant Bloem
- Robert Whitehead as Interrogator
- Greg Latter as Policeman
- Nicky Rebelo as Soldier
- James Whyle as Soldier
Crew
- Darrell James Roodt - Director
- William Nicholson - Screenplay
- Mbongeni Ngema - Screenplay
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